1st Edition

Tumors and Cancers Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems

By Dongyou Liu Copyright 2018
    212 Pages 17 Color & 3 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    210 Pages
    by CRC Press

    212 Pages 17 Color & 3 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    Tumors and cancers are insidious diseases characterized by an abnormal growth of cells that extend beyond their usual boundaries and disrupt the normal functions of affected organs. Forming the first of the four volumes devoted to tumors and cancers, this volume focuses on the central and peripheral nervous systems. Each chapter presents a state of the art summary of tumor/cancer of a particular type in relation to its definition, biology, epidemiology, disease mechanism/pathogenesis, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis.

    Introductory remarks

    TUMORS OF NEUROEPITHELIAL TISSUE

    Astrocytoma

    Glioblastoma
    Divya Khosla and Ritesh Kumar

    Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma
    Xintong Zhao and Guoquan Jiang

    Chordoid glioma, angiocentric glioma, and diffuse midline glioma

    Astroblastoma
    Mohammed Hmoud and Alaa Samkari

    Gliomatosis cerebri
    Vamsi Krishna Yerramneni and Omekareswar Rambarki

    Oligodendroglioma

    Oligoastrocytoma

    Ependymoma

    Choroid plexus tumors

    Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor

    Gangliocytoma and Lhermitte-Duclos disease

    Ganglioglioma
    Mandana Behbahani, Hasan R. Syed, Christopher Kalhorn, and Tadanori Tomita

    Neurocytoma.

    Papillary glioneuronal tumor
    Andreas K. Demetriades

    Rosette-forming glioneuronal tumor
    Tayfun Hakan

    Pineal parenchymal tumor of intermediate differentiation
    Prantik Das

    Pineoblastoma, pineocytoma and papillary tumor of the pineal region

    Medulloblastoma

    CNS primitive neuroectodermal tumor and other embryonal tumors

    TUMORS OF THE CRANIAL AND PARASPINAL NERVES

    Neurofibroma
    Soubhagya Ranjan
    Tripathy, Samer Hoz Saad Alameri, and Mohamed Said Elsanafiry

    Perineurioma and malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor

    Schwannoma
    Austin Huy Nguyen, Adam M Vaudreuil, Victoria M Lim and Stephen W Coons

    TUMORS OF THE MENINGES

    Melanocytic tumors

    Hemangiopericytoma and hemangioblastoma

    TUMORS OF THE SELLAR REGION

    Craniopharyngioma

    Biography

    Dongyou Liu, Ph.D., studied veterinary science at Hunan Agricultural University, China and undertook postgraduate training at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Over the past two decades, he has worked at several research and clinical laboratories in Australia and the United States of America, with focuses on molecular characterization and virulence determination of microbial pathogens such as ovine footrot bacterium (Dichelobacter nodosus), dermatophyte fungi (Trichophyton, Microsporum and Epidermophyton ) and listeriae (Listeria species), as well as development of nucleic acid-based quality assurance models for security sensitive and emerging viral pathogens. Additionally, during the period of 1995-2001, he established and performed molecular tests at clinical laboratories for a range of human genetic disorders and cancers, including BRCA1, BRCA2, c-kit, B-/Tcell receptor gene rearrangements, t (11,14) chromosomal translocation, k-ras, fragile X syndrome, factor V Leiden, hemochromatosis and prothrombin mutations. He is the primary author of >50 original research and review articles in various international journals, the contributor of 176 book chapters, and the editor of "Handbook of Listeria monocytogenes" (2008), "Handbook of Nucleic Acid Purification" (2009), "Molecular Detection of Foodborne Pathogens" (2009), "Molecular Detection of Human Viral Pathogens" (2010), "Molecular Detection of Human Bacterial Pathogens" (2011), "Molecular Detection of Human Fungal Pathogens" (2011), "Molecular Detection of Human Parasitic Pathogens" (2012), "Manual of Security Sensitive Microbes and Toxins" (2014), "Molecular Detection of Animal Viral Pathogens" (2016), and "Laboratory Models for Foodborne Infections" (2017), all of which were released by CRC Press. He is also a co-editor for "Molecular Medical Microbiology 2nd Edition", which was published by Elsevier in 2014.